Nathaniel Cade is a 160-year-old vampire who has sworn to protect and serve the President of the United States. In this very gripping series sta... read full description
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Jul 24, 2011
Dorsi
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Excellent debut novel! Even though it was about vampires, like so many other current books, I found this story to be original & fresh. It was well written & interesting. Cade was an awesome vamp! At first I didn't like Zach. He was a whiny, pompous, spoiled brat. Experience & circumstance made him grow up & become a stand up guy in a hurry! Bring on The President's Vampire #2!
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Jun 05, 2010
William
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Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth.
I had reservations when I got this book. Another vampire story just seems to be over the top. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was a fast moving, captivating story. A vampire serving as a secret agent for generations of American presidents was a storyline that worked out surprisingly well.
Nathaniel Cade has served his nation for 140 years. Protecting an unsuspecting population from a veritable Ripley’s Believe it or Not More...
I had reservations when I got this book. Another vampire story just seems to be over the top. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was a fast moving, captivating story. A vampire serving as a secret agent for generations of American presidents was a storyline that worked out surprisingly well.
Nathaniel Cade has served his nation for 140 years. Protecting an unsuspecting population from a veritable Ripley’s Believe it or Not More...
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May 17, 2010
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Adding to my previous review: BUY THIS BOOK!!! It is available in bookstores Tuesday, May 18 and worth every penny! Such a good read! If you can't buy it, request it from your local library!
Super-fun, super-fast story of a vampire who swore a blood oath to the office of the President of the United States in the 1860's and has been investigating paranormal occurrences since.
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Super-fun, super-fast story of a vampire who swore a blood oath to the office of the President of the United States in the 1860's and has been investigating paranormal occurrences since.
It's smart, funny and perfectly paced. And I love that the author gave his own boo More...
Jul 25, 2010
Kathleen
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Blood Oath is a book that combines vampirism and politics. According to history, there was a person that was pardoned for being a bloodsucker by President Andrew Jackson. The vampire in this story, Nathaniel Cade's assignment is to protect the president at all costs and he has been sworn not to hurt either the president or any of the agents working with him. Cade actually refuses to drink human blood at all and exists by drinking animal blood. Into the picture comes Zach Barrows, who is assigned
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Apr 29, 2010
Clare
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At this moment, there are eight separate conspiracy groups plotting to destroy the U.S. government. And Nathaniel Cade, the President’s Vampire, is working against the non-humans who would bring us down.
This book was awesome! From the very first page, when Zach Barrows, a self-titled “young Karl Rove,” is reassigned as the presidential liaison to the President’s Vampire, I read with accelerated heartbeat and eager anticipation. His new job: “Forget the War on Terror, Zach. This More...
This book was awesome! From the very first page, when Zach Barrows, a self-titled “young Karl Rove,” is reassigned as the presidential liaison to the President’s Vampire, I read with accelerated heartbeat and eager anticipation. His new job: “Forget the War on Terror, Zach. This More...
Dec 16, 2010
Teechbiz
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This political thriller has it all. suspense, action, and a story line that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens next.
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Apr 12, 2010
Kerry
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Okay, I have to say that the tag lines on the cover did not impress me and I thought it was on the edge of rediculous, but I decided to open the book anyway (Blood Oath is a far better title). To my surprise I haven't been able to put it down!! It's well written and the action starts right away. Of course there is some gore (always good), but what I like the best is that the characters are very believable. I'm only about 100 pages in, but so far I'm impressed. I am reminded once again to not "
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Oct 20, 2011
Theresa
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It was only a matter of time, given the current vampire craze, that someone attempted to fuse political intrigue with everyone's favorite blood-suckers. Unfortunately Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth seems to be made up of clichés rather than anything of substance.
Nathanial Cade is a vampire who serves at the leisure of the President of the United States. Agreeing to be bound by a blood oath cast by a voodoo priestess, Cade has served since the presidency of Andrew Jackson and ha More...
Nathanial Cade is a vampire who serves at the leisure of the President of the United States. Agreeing to be bound by a blood oath cast by a voodoo priestess, Cade has served since the presidency of Andrew Jackson and ha More...
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Oct 19, 2010
Poppy
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I lucked out and found this at my local library. I read the first page and was hooked. It took me two days to read it and everytime I had to put it down ( work, family obligations) all I would think about how soon I could get back to it. I hope Mr. Farnsworth is a fast writer because I can't wait for the next book.
The story is original with intriguing characters and a captivating cadence that makes you reluctant to put the book down. There are clever historical references and journal More...
The story is original with intriguing characters and a captivating cadence that makes you reluctant to put the book down. There are clever historical references and journal More...
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Jan 20, 2011
Jennifer
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Blood Oath is the best vampire book I have ever read. It is a thrilling paranormal adventure, oozing with action and intrigue.
Nathaniel Cade is cursed, or to be more precise, is committed with a blood oath to serve and protect the president and defend the United States. Cade's past cases are the stuff of legends. Literally. Conspiracy theories barely scratch the surface of what he's faced.
Zach, Cade's new liaison to the president, is completely authentic. His words and ac More...
Nathaniel Cade is cursed, or to be more precise, is committed with a blood oath to serve and protect the president and defend the United States. Cade's past cases are the stuff of legends. Literally. Conspiracy theories barely scratch the surface of what he's faced.
Zach, Cade's new liaison to the president, is completely authentic. His words and ac More...
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Feb 27, 2011
Charles
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James Bond with pale skin and a sensitivity to sun light But then 007 wore shades at times didnt he? A vampire with a concience, attitude, a dry sense of humor, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, fighting to protect our country from the truly evil - and all without being a doey-eyed, love lorn tween (shades of Hell Boy anyone?).
The flood of vampire novels over the past few years had me running screaming to the nearest book store exit - until I found 'Blo More...
The flood of vampire novels over the past few years had me running screaming to the nearest book store exit - until I found 'Blo More...
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Aug 29, 2010
Darcia
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Blood Oath is not your typical, light vampire novel. Farnsworth's writing could easily stand beside all of today's best thriller and suspense authors. Cade is a vampire who has sworn a blood oath to protect the president and his team. But not just one president - every president for the rest of Cade's existence. His job is to seek and destroy those things that live in the shadows and that the average person never knows about.
Each character is unique, the dialogue is perfection, and t More...
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Sep 07, 2011
Chris
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It's not very often I enjoy a book through and through. Especially a vampire book. Vampire books do not have a great reputation with me these days. Too much sex, angst, and just bad writing. Blood Oath has sex and angst, but a bunch of good writing. [return][return]Blood Oath is a fast paced modern story of a vampire bound to protect the office of the President of the United States and the citizens of the nation. [return][return]Captured during the presidency of Andrew Johnson, Nathaniel C
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Jan 28, 2012
Felicia
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Publisher: Putnam
Purchased: I won this book in a give-away
What I Loved: Zach and Cade were to me, like Chloe/Jack were when they started working together on the show 24. It was fun to watch them work out their working relationship, especially with all the intense situations that they were thrown in too. I really loved the character of Griff--he added that extra buffer as Zach/Cade got to know each other. This was just a fun, thrilling, fast-paced, topsy-turvy ride that kept me More...
Purchased: I won this book in a give-away
What I Loved: Zach and Cade were to me, like Chloe/Jack were when they started working together on the show 24. It was fun to watch them work out their working relationship, especially with all the intense situations that they were thrown in too. I really loved the character of Griff--he added that extra buffer as Zach/Cade got to know each other. This was just a fun, thrilling, fast-paced, topsy-turvy ride that kept me More...
Oct 19, 2011
Danny
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Want a vampire who doesn't attend high school in Washington? Or become romantically entangled with Southern women? Or give interviews?
Want a vampire who's mainly a killing machine?
May I introduce you to Nathanial Cade, the President's vampire. For well over a century Cade has been bound to the will of the President of the United States, fighting for the safety of our nation against the forces of the Other Side. These forces take a lot of shapes, and the book makes ref More...
Want a vampire who's mainly a killing machine?
May I introduce you to Nathanial Cade, the President's vampire. For well over a century Cade has been bound to the will of the President of the United States, fighting for the safety of our nation against the forces of the Other Side. These forces take a lot of shapes, and the book makes ref More...
Sep 26, 2011
Schnaucl
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I'll be honest, I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. The premise seemed a bit silly but I picked it up anyway and I'm glad I did.
I really like Cade. He's more of an old school vampire. A predator with a veneer of civilization. His views on humans are somewhat complicated. He claims to see humans as food (and therefore isn't attracted to them which certainly makes for a nice change). But that's obviously not completely true because he won't let himself drink human b More...
I really like Cade. He's more of an old school vampire. A predator with a veneer of civilization. His views on humans are somewhat complicated. He claims to see humans as food (and therefore isn't attracted to them which certainly makes for a nice change). But that's obviously not completely true because he won't let himself drink human b More...
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Sep 17, 2011
Baidan
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If you're sick of vampire stories these days, you are not alone. The reason I say that is so that you know what the mindset was when I picked this up. "Blood Oath" is based on the idea that while President Andrew Johnson was in office, he pardoned a vampire. That vampire was Nathaniel Cade. Fast foward to present day and Cade is now sworn to the word of the president, being sent on missions to deal with supernatural threats to the nation.
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Sep 16, 2011
J9
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This is defiantly not your typical vampire novel associated with the paranormal genre these days. It is a political thriller with a side of action adventure with some paranormal aspects. But these paranormal aspect defiantly set the tone of the book. This book as everything, Vampires, a mad scientist (think of one the most famous ones), a shadow group/company, conspiracy and a naive human thrown in just for kicks, you know this is going to be a good book.
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May 10, 2011
Lynn
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I am thinking that in the past when I said, “I’m not really a vampire person” – I may have to drink my words. This book was fabulous and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes action, adventure, and/or presidential history.
Christopher Farnsworth came across a small newspaper article in a 1867 paper. It mentioned that President Jackson had pardoned a whaler who had been found after a shipwreck and he had consumed his fellow sailors to survive. In the real story more than li More...
Mar 13, 2011
Cheryl
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Blood Oath is about Nathaniel Cade, a vampire who has been bound to take orders from the U.S. president (and anyone he designates as his liaisons). Zach Barrows is a young, arrogant former deputy director for White House affairs who has just been assigned to be one of Cade’s handler; Zach thinks the assignment is punishment for being caught with the president’s daughter. The other handler is veteran agent William Griffin (Griff), who has worked with Cade for years. As the story begins, body part
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Mar 09, 2011
Vicky
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If you like Stephen King, you’re going to love this book. Nathaniel Cade is a secret agent sworn to protect the president. And he just happens to be a vampire. He’s been around for 143 years and been through more liaisons than he can count. Zach Barrows is young, ambitious, and has ideas where his political career should be going – and it’s not in the company of the undead. But he and Cade form an uneasy alliance as they battle against forces that would take down the president and the U.S.
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Feb 05, 2011
Clare
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Thought I would try this because I rather like a good Vampire story as long as it's not too vapid and well, nobody...sparkles. <g> I also am a fan of Robert Ludlum's books, and this rather reminded me of them in some spots with the action sequences.
My favorite approach to the Vampire mythos--well any fantasy/science fiction really--is when an author has a very logical world set up, definite rules for how the Vampire or fantastic creature must live and act, and a good back story More...
My favorite approach to the Vampire mythos--well any fantasy/science fiction really--is when an author has a very logical world set up, definite rules for how the Vampire or fantastic creature must live and act, and a good back story More...
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Jan 31, 2011
Sara
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Nov 27, 2010
MarsianMan
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Zach is an up and coming, young politician on the fast track to power when he gets assigned to something so secret only a handful of Americans know about it. Instead of becoming more famous, he will be buried so deeply in secrecy that the American public will forget he ever existed. The secret? The President’s bodyguard and ultimate secret agent is a vampire, and that there are greater threats to America than he ever thought possible.
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Oct 30, 2010
Shomeret
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It's a great concept, but I sure would like to see more character complexity. Zach is my biggest complaint. He does grow as a character in the course of the novel, but going from one dimensional to approximately one and a half dimensional isn't much of an improvement. On the other hand, if the author expects to sell the movie version, a character like Zach would be pure gold to a film studio. He represents the young male demographic that they're trying to reach. He just isn't very appealing t
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Aug 26, 2010
Latricia
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The Ultimate Secret.
The Ultimate Agent.
The President's Vampire.
Reads the cover of my review copy, picked up at PLA 2010 in Portland a few weeks ago. We're all told don't judge a book by it's cover, but COME ON! Those lines in red on a black cover above a presidential seal with the eagle turned into a bat. It looked like a movie poster....a poster for a movie I WANTED to see.
My husband claimed the book while I was busy reading the More...
The Ultimate Agent.
The President's Vampire.
Reads the cover of my review copy, picked up at PLA 2010 in Portland a few weeks ago. We're all told don't judge a book by it's cover, but COME ON! Those lines in red on a black cover above a presidential seal with the eagle turned into a bat. It looked like a movie poster....a poster for a movie I WANTED to see.
My husband claimed the book while I was busy reading the More...
Aug 25, 2010
T.
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Blood Oath is a great book, but let’s just get this out of the way first – If you’re looking for a deep, moving, original literary work, do not look here. Blood Oath is a rip-roaring, violent, and ridiculous action novel, and a good one at that.
The plot is totally derivative, the opening almost followed Hellboy to the letter as young and upcoming White House staffer Zach is inducted into a secret branch of government tasked with fighting the supernatural, their secret weapon? Blade- More...
The plot is totally derivative, the opening almost followed Hellboy to the letter as young and upcoming White House staffer Zach is inducted into a secret branch of government tasked with fighting the supernatural, their secret weapon? Blade- More...
Jul 26, 2010
Jeannie
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At 20 years old in the year 1867, Nathanial Cade had been sailing the world's oceans on whaling ships for three years. On one perilous voyage, all hands on deck slowly go missing one at a time, until one day the mystery reveals itself in the form of a stowaway vampire. Cade and three other sailors are the last alive when while under attack from the demon, Cade is cut and the vampire's blood pours into his wound. Instant change overcomes Cade and he too now becomes a thirsty creature of the night
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Jul 24, 2010
Mark
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As we’ve said before in these reviews, those vampires are everywhere at the moment. In public (Meyer’s Twilight series), in secret (Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files), watching over us, (Jennifer Rardin’s CIA agent Jaz Parks), a presence throughout history (Jasper Kent’s Twelve and Thirteen Years Later).
This one fits securely into the latter here. The book’s subtitle (The President’s Vampire) gives it away, and perhaps a little unfairly. Here we have a tale of contemporary guardianship – More...
This one fits securely into the latter here. The book’s subtitle (The President’s Vampire) gives it away, and perhaps a little unfairly. Here we have a tale of contemporary guardianship – More...
Jun 16, 2010
Kalyn
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So, many years ago a young sailor was captured after being turned into a vampire and draining his two friends on the way back from a sea voyage. Rather than have him killed, President Andrew Johnson called in a voodoo priestess to bind the vampire to the office of the President. That means that now, the US has a secret vampire to fight the forces of evil.
Yes, there are stereotypes abounding in the novel - the old, curmudgeonly agent who is leaving; the new, young, brash hot-shot More...
Yes, there are stereotypes abounding in the novel - the old, curmudgeonly agent who is leaving; the new, young, brash hot-shot More...
